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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Fly Derrie-Air
The Story of Dick Derrie and Derrie-Air
Dick Derrie was born in Salamander, Missouri, a tiny hamlet on the banks of the Mississippi. (Salamander is small, so small that you won't find it on any map.) His father was a fisherman. As a child, Dick ate nothing but line-caught Mississippi fish. This unusual diet flooded his brain with Omega-3 fatty acids, to which he credits his remarkable business acumen.
As a boy, Dick did whatever he could to save money. He dreamed up rising up from the life of poverty he was born into. He held down all kinds of jobs-building rafts, hunting wild boar, guarding prisoners at the nearby correctional facility. By the time he graduated high school, Dick owned a chain of pinball machines in local juke joints and had a net worth of some $5 million. Over the next ten years he would attend business school, open Missouri's third-largest plant for the bottling of generic cola, and multiply this small fortune one hundred times over.
Dick's longing to plunge into Derrie-Air began in 1994, when he sent his first express package. "Heck," he reasoned to himself. "These sons-of-a-gun are making me pay by the pound! Now what if we ran an airline the same way..." The idea lay dormant until 2005, when Dick saw a popular film on global warming. He began to worry that if he didn't do something to cool off the planet, his grandchildren might never know the joy of hunting alligators on his marshy wetlands from the back of a two-ton truck. He called a meeting of Derrie Corp's board of directors the next day, and Derrie-Air was born.
Today Dick is 35 years old. He is the richest man in the state of Missouri. He lives with his wife and two sons on a ranch of a thousand acres near Salamander. Dick's father lives in a magnificent castle that Dick had specially imported, block by block, from Scotland. He still likes to hunt boar. It is, after all, his early experiences with the sublimity of wild nature that planted the seeds of his desire to save our planet. "The planet's a lot like life," Dick often says. "We only get one."
Monday, June 09, 2008
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Jim McKay, The Munich Olympics And The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
Jim McKay passed away yesterday. As mentioned on several local blogs, he was the sportcaster who reported on the horrors at the 1972 Munich Olympics
In 1972, I was stationed at the Nurnburg Army Hospital. Four of us took a VW bug down to Munich for the Olympics, we had gotten tickets for being 'strac' troopers. As we were looking for a place to park in the Olympic park, we ended up at a McDonald's and were surrounded by German police. We produced our passes, ID cards, and waited for an interpreter to arrive. We were eventually given the ok to leave. Those were scary times. 
AFN was full of warnings to troops to go back to their bases and stay away from Munich. When we arrived back in Nurnburg and entered the hospital gates, the MPs ran mirrors under our car, and searched us and the vehicle.
Another terrorist group of that era was the "Baader-Meinhof" gang of whom, more than likely, you will be hearing about again, real soon.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
That Guy Who Drives The Dump Truck Down All Those Pipes Found These Longroofs Parked In One Of Those Pipes
Brother John likes longroofs, the precursor to the van and minivan. I found these and know he will be emailing me soon wanting to know where I found them and if there are any more in the same place. I tried to pick out all the 1959 models because that is the year John was born. That Volkwagen bus, my folks bought the second VW Bus in St. Louis from Charles Schultz Motors in 1959. It looked like the one in the picture except it didn't have a sun roof. Our sister Jane has a box of photos of every car Dad owned. sigh.
So, for John and Ed and James: Here Comes the Longroofs!
1947 Chevrolet Wagon
1959 DeSoto Fireflite Explorer
1958 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Fiesta
1955 Chevrolet "Two-Ten" Handyman
1958 Chevrolet Brookwood
1959 Volkswagen 21 Window Micro Bus
1959 Pontiac Safari Parisienne
1959 Mercury Country Cruiser
1959 Ford Country Sedan
1959 Ford Ranch Wagon
1959 Ford Country Squire
Attention Male Golfers Or Guys Who Walk Around Downtown:
How many times has this happened? You arrive at the golf course, and soon you’re on to 18 holes with your best buddies. After drinking sport ades, water, beer, and whatever, you’re on the 3rd hole with no rest room in sight. There are no trees or bushes around and you just gotta go, what are you going to do? 
Or, you are walking around downtown, swilling the java and maybe a non-caffeine or two. The next thing you know, you are in the middle of the square and it suddenly becomes obvious what is missing! Ha! Guess that architect guy didn't think of that either! What will you do? What will you do? This may be the answer!
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